Overview
- Description
- This collection contains 201 maps and plans (some of them in several copies) from very different provenances and dates of origin, some are undated. The maps of the period prior to 1939 mostly include plans of the following towns: Biała, Częstochowa, and Otwock. The largest and most valuable parts of the collection consist of plans and maps of 1939-1945, including: 1. Plans of ghettos, e.g. Baranowicze, Białystok, Częstochowa, Kielce, Kowale, Kraków, Łódź, Sosnowiec, Warsaw. 2. Plans of concentration camps and labor camps, e.g. Bełżec, Chełmno, Sobibór, Treblinka, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Krakow-Płaszów. 3.City or town plans, e.g. Będzin (Bendsburg), Gdańsk (Danzig), Kraków (Krakau), Lublin, Lʹviv (Lwów), Ozorków, Piotrków, Pabianice, Przemyśl, Skarżysko-Kamienna, Szczecin, Sosnowiec, Zawiercie. 4. Plans of diverse administrational districts related to Poland, Germany, USSR and other European territories.
- Alternate Title
- Collection of maps and plans
- Date
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inclusive:
1922-1990
- Credit Line
- Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Maps. Plans (maps)
- Extent
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662 digital images : PDF ; 1.47 GB.
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This material can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations. No other access restrictions apply to this material.
- Conditions on Use
- Publication or copying of more than several documents for a third party requires the permission of the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny imienia Emanuela Ringelbluma.
- Copyright Holder
- Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Concentration camps--Poland--Maps. World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Poland--Maps. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Poland. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków--Maps. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warszawa--Maps. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Sosnowiec--Maps. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź--Maps. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kraków--Maps. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kowale--Maps. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Kielce--Maps. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Częstochowa--Maps. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Białystok--Maps. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Baranowicze--Maps. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Otwock--Maps. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Częstochowa--Maps. Będzin (Poland)--Maps.
- Geographic Name
- Zawiercie (Poland)--Maps. Sosnowiec (Poland)--Maps. Szczecin (Poland)--Maps. Skarżysko-Kamienna (Poland)--Maps. Przemyśl (Poland)--Maps. Gdańsk (Poland)--Maps. Pabianice (Poland)--Maps. Lublin (Poland)--Maps. Piotrków (Poland)--Maps. Ozorków (Poland)--Maps. Grodziszcze (Poland)--Maps. Biała (Poland)--Maps. Lʹviv (Ukraine)--Maps.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- From the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Sygn. 245.The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received the collection from ŻIH via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Division in Sep. 2012.
- Special Collection
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Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2023-06-06 14:32:48
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